Chaucer and the Traditions of Dawn-Song
- Author / Editor
- Battles, Paul.
Chaucer and the Traditions of Dawn-Song
- Published
- Chaucer Review 31 (1997): 317-38.
- Description
- Chaucer draws on a variety of sources--Boccaccio, Ovid, French dawn-songs, popular dawn-song traditions, courtly dawn-songs, and (perhaps) popular poetry--for the dawn-songs in RvT, MerT, Mars, and TC. He uses these sources in a variety of idiosyncratic ways.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Complaint of Mars.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.